What can a school's exam results tell me about how good it is?

What can a school's exam results tell me about how good it is?

Ralph Lucas (Editor, The Good Schools Guide) gives expert video advice on: Where can I get a copy of a school's exam results?; Where can I get a copy of the school's OFSTED report?; What are league tables? and more...

Use exam results to prompt questions. They never provide answers. You can see exam results that look extremely good and it can just be because the children have been selected very heavily, or that they have all come from China and they get Chinese A-level with no difficulty at all. You can see exam results which look very bad which may, in fact, be a superb performance by a group of children who are finding life difficult. They focus you on particular areas of the school, particular aspects of the school that you should find out about when you visit it. That's what I use them for.